was just talking to tze ping about xanga and livejournal.....

Xanga.com
pros :
+ ajustable borders and colour for different areas
+ transparent feature
+ music feature
+ tag board feature
+ site meter feature
+ backdrop feature for background
+ user picture is bigger in size
+ alignment to middle, left or right
+ size of page setable

cons :
+ features livejournal has that xanga doesnt
+ viewing only 5 entree at a time
+ clicking on "edit html" before you can put a code in
+ no backdate entree
+ comments can be made only by xanga members
+ tag board spam - tagboard being invaded by advertisors

Livejournal
pros :
+ set currrent music listening to and current mood
+ "friend list" page looks much more interesting - better feature - diff user pic
+ more layouts to choose from
+ 3 user pic to choose for your entree - depending on ur mood
+ special memory event
+ editable with htmls codes anytime

cons :
+ not able to view back more than 10 pages, manually look from the calender
+ features xanga has that livejournal doesnt